It matured in 2020 and you renewed it.

It matures again in August, and a renewal is not a right.”

Forty-two thousand one hundred dollars of remaining principal, due in full, on the last day of August, because a note that matures is simply due.

I had signed that paper in 2010 and renewed it twice at a desk in under twenty minutes each time, and the second renewal had taken so little effort that I had stopped thinking of the maturity date as a date at all.

Nobody had done anything to me.